Collection of 21 manuscript financial documents from one of the first American companies dedicated to extracting and selling oil outside the United States. Known variously as the Peruvian Refinery Company, Peruvian Refining Company, Peruvian Petroleum Company and Peruvian Petroleum and Refinery Company, the company was founded by James Bishop --..... Item #21378
Lima, Peru: Instituto Andino de Estudios en Poblacion y Desarrollo, 1981. Softcover. Very Good. 55 pp, with two foldout diagrams, bibliography. Short (1/2 inch) tears at head and foot of spine; light handling wear; contents clean and sound. Text in Spanish. A study of migration patterns within the nation of..... Item #329
London: John Murray, 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Two volumes, pp. xiii, 351, 32 (publisher's ads); 423, with 9 full-page plates, additional illustrations in the text, and a folding map. Bound in three-quarter blue leather over blue cloth, with red spine label, spine decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers. Some..... Item #22087
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1911]. Hardcover. Very good. Early reprint (no date on title page). pp. xvi, 405, with 7 maps and more than 70 illustrations from photographs. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering. Light rubbing to extremities, some puckering of the cloth at the spine and one corner, previous owner's..... Item #22121
New York: Duell, Sloane, & Pearce. Hardcover. Very good in a Good dust jacket. Sixth printing, with no date on title page; copyright 1948. 263 pp, plus and additional 64 pp of photographs. Topographic map of Machu Picchu and vicinity on the front endpapers. Previous owner's address stamp on front..... Item #21875
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes. 8vo, pp xii, 443; viii, 478, [2] (ads), each with engraved frontispiece and title page vignette, folding map in Volume II. Publisher's green cloth ruled in blind, with gilt figure on each front board. Account of Burton's journey from..... Item #20752
New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 402 pp, with appendix, bibliography, index, and more than 50 illustrations from photographs, in the simplest binding of unadorned grayish-brown cloth. Spine lettering faded but legible. Upper corners lightly bumped, binding sound, text clean. Short ownership inscription..... Item #22266
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Translated by Basil Creighton. 190 pp, illustrated with b/w photos. An as-new copy in a clean dust jacket with slight edgewear. Documents two major expeditions into the jungles between Palenque and Copan on the Yucatan..... Item #13248
New York and New Orleans: George B. Richardson and Bloomfield & Steel, 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. iv, 272 pp, with frontis portrait of the author and folding colored map of Brazil and Guyana, in origInal green cloth binding. Minimal external wear, binding sound, but all pages are tanned, some..... Item #22120
London: Methuen, 1899. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 390 pp, with index, half-tone and photogravure illustrations from photographs by the author and by Arthur E. Lightbody and Stuart Vines, folding panorama, 2 folding maps. Bound in original red cloth with gilt lettering, image of a condor on upper board. Upper..... Item #22265
Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1970. Softcover. Very good. 214 pp. Rubbing to extremities, pages tanned. Binding sound, no markings. Some pages unopened. Item #13921
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1855. Hardcover. Very good-. Early reprint (first American edition published 1853). 624 pp, in original blind-stamped cloth binding. One page loosened from binding, otherwise a very good, clean copy with nice provenance information. Small private library bookplate of Ohio attorney Jabez Dickey on front pastedown..... Item #22036
Gainesville, FL: College of Architecture and Fine Arts, University of Florida, 1975. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. Catalogue of an exhibition shown and documented in conjunction with the special photographic exhibition Machu Picchu of the Inca, with photography by Roy C. Craven Jr. (36) pp, stapled wrappers. Illustrated with 28..... Item #14777
[Palo Alto, CA]: Dramatists' Alliance of Stanford University, 1944. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 106 pp, ca. 8.5 x 11 inches, original illustrated wrappers. Moderate handling wear, including creasing to cover resulting from a binding error; very good. Second volume in the Coester Series of Translations from the drama of..... Item #20734
Philadelphia: J.P. Lippincott and Co., 1875. Hardcover. Near fine. New edition with sixty-eight illustrations on wood. A near fine copy of this beautifully illustrated work. 10.5", 210 pp, bound in brown cloth with decoration stamped in black and gilt. Corners and spine ends rubbed, otherwise a fine copy of this..... Item #22244
London: R.H. Porter, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp. xvi, 269 + [2], ads, with illustrations, folding map. Original blue cloth. Edges of boards rubbed, mild scuffing to rear board. Contemporary ownership signature on title page, otherwise unmarked and sound. "In the following chapters I propose to give a...... Item #14486
Soft cover. Fine. Facsimile reprint of the original pamphlet printed in London in 1743. Stapled binding, printed on faux-parchment. Clean, tight, unmarked. "Bitter vindication of [Knowles'] conduct in the disastrous Cartagena expedition, during which he served as surveyor and engineer of the British fleet" (Swann). Item #12679
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Washington, DC: Press of Byron S. Adams, 1912. 6 x 9.25 inches, 72 pp, with chromolithograph frontispiece, many b/w illustrations from photographs. Near fine, with mild edgewear to wrappers. Stamp of the Bolivan Consulate in San Francisco on front endpaper. An attractive informational booklet aimed at potential investors, with description..... Item #18158
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Sunning to top 1/8 ionch of spine, else a fine copy. Dust jacket has some chipping to the top of the spine, is lightly rubbed along the joints and at the corners, and..... Item #20666
New York: The Century Company. Title page undated; copyright 1924.462 pp, illustrated with half-tone photographs. Original pictorial blue cloth boards. Mile sunning to spine and top edge of front board, previous owner's signature on front free endpaper, otherwise clean and sound. A lively travel narrative, in which the author comments..... Item #20516
London: Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. Hardcover. Very good. Square 16mo, 112 pp, plus [13] blank pages at the back for memoranda and log; many photographic illustrations, including 2 folding panoramas, a folding color map and a table of distances. Early owner's inscription on the front free endpaper; short tear..... Item #14710
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Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Xlvi, 383 pp, with a preface by the translator, A. Giraud. Dark pebbled cloth with five raised bands, marbled endpapers. Tight binding, light foxing, a few marginal pencil lines. First French edition of Sarmiento's most famous book, considered one of the..... Item #13461
New York: G.P. Putnam, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. xi, 428 pp + publisher's ads, with two lithographed plates before the title page, showing Rio de Janiero and Catete, Original red cloth binding, with chipping to cloth at base of spine, light wear to edges. Internally sound and clean..... Item #22164
Gainesville, FL: University Gallery, College of Architecture and Fine Arts, University of Florida, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Exhibition catalogue. (20) pp, with introductory essay, map, b/w illustrations from photos of the textiles exhibited. As new, in original stapled wrappers. Item #14778
Mexico: Coleccion Distrito Federal, 1988. Softcover. Very good. Text in Spanish. 74 pp, with color illustrations from photographs, in original illustrated wrappers. Gift inscription on front endpaper; else clean and sound with light handling wear. Item #15023
